William Vere Reeve King-Fane

Colonel William Vere Reeve King-Fane (born Fane; 29 October 1868 – 5 November 1943) was an English local politician, magistrate and landowner, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Family A member of the Fane family, William Vere Reeve Fane was born on 29 October 1868 at 7 Norfolk Crescent, London, the eldest son of William Dashwood Fane, JP (1816–1902), of Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife Sarah Millicent (1823–1877), elder daughter of General John Reeve, of Leadenham House, Lincolnshire. Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, William Dashwood Fane was a barrister, and served as Secretary to the Mercantile Law Commission (1853–56), and Legal Assistant (1856–67) and Assistant Secretary (1865–67) to the Board of Trade. His own father, William (1789–1839), was a civil servant in Bengal and the younger son of Hon. Henry Fane, himself the younger son of the 8th Earl of Westmorland; Henry had inherited an estate centred on the Lincolnshire village of Fulbeck. After resigning his position at the Board of Trade, William Dashwood Fane went to live at Norwood House, Southwell, and then Melbourne Hall, Derby (neither of which he owned), before purchasing his family's old home, Fulbeck Hall, in 1887; he moved into the house in 1894.